Job 38:19-38 (Holman Christian Standard)

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19 Where is the road to the home of light? [Do you know] where darkness lives,^a 20 so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home? 21 Don't you know? You were already born;^b you have lived so long!^c 22 Have you entered the [place] where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,^d 23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?^e 24 What road leads to [the place] where light is dispersed?^f [Where is the source of] the east wind that spreads across the earth?^g 25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain^h or clears the way for lightning, 26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land, [on] a desert with no human life,ⁱ 27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?^j 28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?^k 29 Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven^l 30 when water becomes as hard as stone,^m and the surface of the watery depths is frozen? 31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion? 32 Can you bring out the constellationsⁿ in their season and lead the Bear^o and her cubs?^p 33 Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its^q authority on earth?^r 34 Can you command^s the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?^t 35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?^u Do they report to you: "Here we are"? 36 Who put wisdom in the heart^v or gave the mind understanding?^w 37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven 38 when the dust hardens like cast metal^x and the clods [of dirt] stick together?

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